On March 20, 2003 at approximately 5:35 am local time, U.S, bombs fell on Baghdad, Iraq. This has been followed by days of severe bombing in Baghdad and other cities, and the incursion of U.S. and British ground forces in Iraq. It has also been followed by huge protests in cities and towns across the United States and around the globe.

There are currently no IraqJournal team members in Baghdad. When new material becomes available, it will be posted here immediately. We encourage visitors to this site to check out the other websites with more up -to-date information. Many are listed in the right column of this page. Some sources of independent reports directly from Baghdad include the Iraq Peace Team website, Jo Wilding's On-line Diary, the Electronic Iraq news site, and a "blog" or weblog written by "salam pax" a young man apparently from Baghdad.

In addition, the website IraqBodyCount.net is attempting to keep a running count of all civilian casualties since January of this year.

As
the Bush administration threatens a massive attack on Iraq, many within
the corporate media have chosen to become cheerleaders for the war cause.
The words "we" and "us" and "our forces" are
used so frequently by major corporate media personalities that it has become
difficult to figure out if it is the Bush Administration or the media that are gearing up to bomb Iraq.

With Washington on the verge of seeking to destroy an already devastated
country, a group of independent journalists and activists - working
together with Democracy
Now!, the nationally distributed community radio and television
program - are breaking ranks with the war chorus. Coordinated by Democracy
Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill and
videographer Jacqueline Soohen on the
ground in Baghdad, IraqJournal provides a forum for the distribution
of independent information and views from Iraq.

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in Madison, Wisconsin.
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